Monday, 22 February 2016

Philip Shadd in Grand Rapids: What Grounds Institutional Rights?

CPRSE Research Associate Dr. Philip Shadd will be presenting at the upcoming Midwest Regional Meeting of the Evangelical Philosophical Society, March 11-12 in Grand Rapids, MI at Grand Rapids Theological Seminary. He plans to present a paper further developing his work on institutional rights, entitled "What Grounds Institutional Rights?" In it he will critically build on a Reformational approach to institutional rights by outlining a way of understanding such rights as based on deontological grounds, that is, on grounds that would explain why institutional rights trump considerations of aggregate social utility.